Programme / Speakers

The BACPR annual conference is sponsored by various pharmaceutical companies.

These organisations have had no input into the development of the conference programme, or influenced the choice of speakers, except for any industry sponsored symposia presentations.

Sponsoring organisations will not be contributing in any way to the organisation and running of any social activities around the conference period.

Click here for a full sponsors list.

Main programme timings:

Day 1 – Thursday 9 October – 10:00 – 17:00 hrs

Day 2 – Friday 10 October – 09:15 – 15:30 hrs

Confirmed programme topics

Session 1 – Welcome and opening keynote

Session 2A - Shaping the Future: Prevention at the Heart of Cardiovascular Health

Session 2B - Beyond the Scales: Holistic Approaches to Obesity and Weight Management in Cardiac Rehab

Session 3 - Bridging the Gap: Data, Policy and Practice for Reducing Inequalities in Cardiac Care

• Public health
• Do the newly emerging modes of cardiac rehabilitation delivery offer a solution to inequalities in access and outcome for patients?
• Scottish Cardiac Rehabilitation Audit
• Lived Experience  

Session 4 – Navigating Comorbidities in Cardiovascular Health

• Cardio-oncology
• Frailty
• Cardio-renal-metabolic disease

Session 5A - Improving Outcomes: Optimising Lipids and Heart Failure in Practice

• Lipid management for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
• Heart Failure

Session 5 B - Spotlight on the Psychosocial Component of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation

• Psychosocial competences
• BHF funded Congenital Heart Disease Pilot
• Psychological Support for ICD recipients: Insights from a pilot service
• Outcomes and learning from a multi-site community cardiac rehabilitation  psychology project

Session 6 – Digital Directions: Navigating Innovation, Access and Equity in CV Health

• Digital Technology in Heart Failure Pathways
• Digital health and AI
• Navigating the Digital Health Landscape:  Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities

Session 7 - Sex, Gender and the Heart: Addressing Risk & Representation in Cardiovascular Health

• Women and CVD
• CVD risk in transgender people
• Sexual Rehabilitation - "the ticking time bomb of ED"

Oral abstract sessions

Poster sessions